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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) helps anyone share their knowledge and creativity with simple, legal permissions to build a more equitable, accessible and innovative world. CC works with global communities to create a vibrant, usable commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. We are a growing global movement, helping people share and engage in collective action. CC licenses and public domain tools have been applied to more than 1.2 billion works across 9 million websites, and are used by global movements in open education, open access, data, science, arts and culture and more.

National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University

The National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU) aims to be a world leader at the forefront of designing, implementing and researching new Blended, On-line and Digital (BOLD) models of education which help to transform lives and societies. We have over 30-years experience of providing Open Education and the NIDL is fully committed to promoting access, equity and social justice through Open Educational Practices (OEP). The NIDL is well connected internationally to other leading research and development centres and in 2019 will host in Dublin the 28th ICDE World Conference on Online Learning.

EdShare

EdShare is a digital content platform designed specifically for the sharing of teaching and learning materials. Whether for your school, collaborative network, institution or organisation and whether you intend to share your resources locally or as OERs. EdShare is flexible and adaptable and can be customised to meet your needs. EdShare allows you to host, organise, share and collaborate on educational materials in one place.

Our growing community includes Glasgow Caledonian University, Humbox, Edge Hill University, University of Southampton and University of Glasgow.

EdShare is built on the world-leading software EPrints, both of which are managed by EPrints Services. We are a not-for-profit team working within the University of Southampton Electronics & Computer Science school.

ReclaimVideo

ReclaimVideo is a cutting-edge media company that brings the classroom into your livingroom. We specialize in renting a wide-range of video equipment, in particular VCRs and VHS tapes. We also have a limited selection of Betamax tapes and players. Camera equipment rentals available on a case-by-case basis.

UK Open Textbooks

What is the viability of introducing open textbooks in UK higher education?

Through the testing of two proposed models: OpenStax and OpenTextbook Network approaches, who have seen impressive growth and impact in the North American context we will aim to test the transferability of these models to a new context, namely that of the UK.

We have identified several sub questions for further investigation during this project:

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